Suez Crossing

The Egyptians had to train a long time to make a successful crossing in the Yom Kippur war. I think it's appropriate that this is treated like a water crossing.

Meh. In real life, I think there is defenses on its banks. Weather there is or isn't, no one I have ever played against has put units on the coast to defend the canal. Even if the crossing is fine with other people, it takes what, like 7-8 hours to cross 250 metres of water? Also, the canal is too wide on the map.

Here is a picture of the Suez canal on google maps. The marker is Suez itself.

The map is only an abstract representation, what does it matter if the canal is rendered wider than in real life? In real life, cities don't appear as dots either, and roads aren't a network of straight lines.

Still, the Suez canal in this looks massive and natural. It is just awfully silly.

But if it was small you'd barely be able to see it.

Meh.

Butter Ball Bill wrote:

The canal should still be in game but just a lot easier to cross/does not require a crossing.

It would not require a rebalance, and as it stands when playing as U.K. it is ineffective.

Crossings of this type add an extra dimension to gameplay. I'm in favour of retaining them, in fact, I would like to see more terrain features.

More terrain features are nice, but canals acting like sea's aren't nice. I mean, Ireland has a fair amount of canals and I think I learned in history that England is riddled with canals for barges from the Industrial Revolution. Would you really like to cross all these in landing craft? Maybe have a ship or two to ferry your troops across the few meters of water?

I think jungles and rivers(much bigger than canals and have a flow, making crossing harder) but only big rivers, not something like the Boyne in Ireland. Some good rivers might be ones like the Dnieper or the Rhine(in Russia and Germany respectively).

It's 200 metres wide. That seems more than wide enough to present a significant water obstacle to me.

Not to me. During Market Garden they could cross a river in a couple minutes under enemy fire at night. I think we could do it here just as fast.

I agree that the area needs a canal zone benefit. The crossing should keep your army's pace normal (or 90%?) BUT it should only be in effect when you control both adjacent provinces.